Donna Druchunas is a freelance technical writer and editor and a knitwear designer. When she’s not working, she reviews books about science, religion, and skepticism and mouths off on the Skepchick blog where she is part of a team of thinking women who reject superstition and pseudo-science and prefer to use reason and evidence to understand the world.
Eric Maisel’s Blogtour for Ten Zen Seconds Begins Today on Brenda Johima’s Creative Nudge You can see the entire tour schedule with the description of each person and what will be discussed at the official Ten Zen Seconds site.
Shannon Grissom is a painter, author and television host who gives folks the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at her life and the creative process. Shannon started the blog “Monkey Made of Sockies” as a way to share her new monkey paintings. The blog is now evolving into a quirky examination of the seriously…
Melanie Slarz of Dose of Creativity chats with Eric Maisel on using Ten Zen Second techniques to reduce anxiety during the creative process. There’s a section in the interview where Eric says, “potential is just potential” that I found particularly interesting.
Dani Greer is Queen of Squidoo and an inspiration to me on foraying into techical areas at any age. I met Dani through Women Writing the West. Her lens on Writing Prompts is attractive and useful. Today she hosts Eric Maisel on his blogtour there.
Judith Nasse and Eric focus on the creative process of writing children’s books. How do you maintain daily creativity and a positive outlook in the face of the long process, rejections, the inevitable doubts, and the plethora of conflicting attitudes from society and the publishing world? Also, Ten Zen Second techniques for children.
Ken is a technical writer, singer/songwriter, Web developer, instructional designer, and non-fiction junkie who blogs about the nature of creativity. What is it? Why do we do it? How can we bring more of it into our lives? He is a co-developer of the Creativity Happens workshop and currently in training as a creativity coach….
Dear Janet, Donna and Eric,
What an enlightening piece in Skepchick in that it clarifies certain thinking about creativity and our processes. So, thanks to Janet for posting this and the other Tne Seconds entries, to Donna for her always- thinking-person’s insights and Eric for his wisdom and willingness to chat.
Arletta